Do you remember our little series with the terrible name “How to explain a political process with a video?“ No? Well, today, it is time to revive this category as I found a new animated EU video about the role of the President of the European Council produced by the TV Newsroom of the Council [...]
Pretty cool animation. Nice example how to make history more interesting and how computer animation can be used for educational purposes. Find more details about the project on DW World: For 28 years, a nearly insurmountable barrier kept people from fleeing East Germany. But then, the dramatic night of November 9, 1989, saw the fall [...]
… not in a bad sense. More like in this book series (and there is even a EU dummy book!)… A couple of days ago the Austrian version of this video was all over twitter. Now, the producers fulfilled their promise and released an English version with a nice Austrian accent. (hat-tip: europeum). Great visuals [...]
Some lazy blogging – Another video in our irregular series (see here for part I and part II) on how to explain political issues with an online video.This time a visualization of the credit crisis: The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis. The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the [...]
Here we go again. The second part of my little collection of online videos that explain political processes. Indeed, this seems to develop into a little series of posts. (check out the first part here). This time the topic is even more complex than last time: It is about the conflict in the Middle East. [...]
The brilliant people at Common Craft just released a great video that explains the US elections in ‘plain English’! If you don’t know their other videos (mostly about internet issues) you really missed something and I strongly recommend them to you. Basically they “make complex ideas easy to understand using short and simple videos.”(mission statement!) [...]



